Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-05
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been run over and killed by railway
train.
Governor Gordon Of Georgia, in a re-
cent interview. said that prohibition had
Been tried through local option in 100 out
of the 1877 counties of the State, and not
one county had gone back on its action.
He did not hesitate to pronounce the re-
suit good. Atlanta has not been dam
aged. All fears of trade being diverted
had proven groundless. The change had
noticeably benefited the freedmen.
Crowds of people went to Richmond,
Va, to witness the Inauguration of the
Lee monument. A majority of the early
arrivals were those that have been rarely
seen in Richmond since the war. There
were old soldiers from the interior coun-
ties who have been saving up for months
in order to be present to see the statue of
sole Marse Bob's," as they affectionately
called their old commander. Another
class was made up of those who, before
the war; comprised the landed gentry, and
who have, since the termination of the
contest, been living in seclusion, out of
accord with the new era, or saddened by
the loss of fortune. So the city was filed
with new faces, though these visitors
were nearly all Virginians.
While attempting to escape from the
Jail at Hot Springs, Ark, few days ago,
a prisoner named Jasper Duncan was shot
and killed.
f. G. Wadsworth, resident of Vicks-
burg, Miss, for the past forty-seven years,
died at his residence a few days ago, aged
seventy -one years.
The cotton receipts at Helena, Ark,
have been larger the past week than ever
before in her history, the receipts being
4,100 bales. SO far the receipts for the
season are 5000 bales ahead of last year.
Richard Paxton of the Buckner Guards
at Harrodsburg, KY, while on the way TO
the armory a few evenings since, entered
a saloon in which Henry Passmore, the
barkeeper, was alone. Three shots were
heard and Paxton emerged shortly after
wards and fell dead.
Information is to the effect that all diff
culties with the striking negro laborers
on the sugar plantations in Terre Bonne
Parish, La, have been adjus ted, they
having agreed to resume work. The in
fantry and artillery militia have been re-
called.
The Kansas City, Memphis & Birming-
bee river 1T aberdeen, Mss Il I1ro1rs g
ing favorably, and tie three center piers
are fast approaching completion, and are
already out of danger of the rising OF the
river
The erection of temporary building
capable of seating 5000 persons has been
agreed upon for the Moody meetings in
Louisville, KY. The building will be To-
Gated on the vacant lot belonging to the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,
and it is proposed shall be ready for occu-
pany by January 1, 1888, at which date
Mr. Moody is expected.
Jos. Upton, a negro preacher, was killed
at Memphis, Tenn, few days ago by Joe
Dixon, a negro barber, who cut Dixon
twice with razor in the groin. Dixon, it
is alleged, claimed that Upton was too
intimate with his wife and he has fire.
quently threatened to take Tipton's life.
Dixon has disappeared.
The remains Of John Hot chkiss, son of
Rev E. B. Hotchkiss, of Hot Springs,
Ark, were taken home from Fulton few
davs ago and buried. The body was
found hear Hope badly mangled, and the
circumstances indicated that the young
man had fallen from freight train on
the ST. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
railway and was crushed by the wheels.
He was employed as brakeman on that
road.
The forthcoming annual report of the
South Carolina Commission Of Agricul.
ture, now in the. hands of the State print
er, estimates the aggregate value of the
principal crops produced in the State the
present year at SAG, ,96S, 900, which exceeds
the value of agricultural productions as
returned at the tenth census by about
IS, 100000, and that of last year by about
So. 900, 900.
The gin house of Taggart & Howell, at
Pine Bluff, caught fire a few nights ago
and, being frame structure, was speed
ilv reduced to ashes. The transfer stables
of w. P. Ritchie, adjoining, were also
burned, together with a portion of his
wagons, harness, etc, and large stock
of feed. There were thirty to forty bales
of cotton burned, and a considerable
quantity of cotton seed. The gin house
and machinery were insured, but the
amount is not known. The loss on every
thing is $4,000 to $4,000
George Bangs, Samuel Houston, Joseph
S. Winter and W. w. Thomas, recently
tried at Jacksonville, Fla,, for the killing
of William MacWilliams were acquitted.
Judge MacLean said he had given the
closest attention to the evidence, and was
convinced that the killing of MacWi illiams
was done in self-defense by Bangs, and
that there was no evidence whatever tend
ing to Grimm ate the others. The verdict
was greeted by cheers from the hundred
or more present, and scores approached
Bangs and shook him by the hand. Over
seventy witnesses We're examined, and
the evidence all tended to clear Bangs.
The steamboat Alberta, plying between
Memphis and White river points, while en-
route for the former place, was burned g
few days ago at Indian Bay, Ark. Her
cargo, consisting of 572 bales of cotton, a
big lot of cottonseed and seed cotton in
sacks, is total loss. Captain Gibbs, the
first clerk, lost his wife, but no other casu-
alties are reported. The boats papers,
books and money are reported lost. The
cargo was consigned to Memphis mer
chants The cause of the fire is not known
The east bound accommodation train Of
the Florida Railway & Navigation Com
pany ran off the track eight miles east oi
Tallahassee few days ago. A broken
rail occasioned the accident. The engine
and tender safely passed over, but thf
following refrigerator car fell over. drag